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2. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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   Always use a strong password with a combination of letters, numbers and special symbols. Register for two-factor authentication if a website lets you do so. The scammer may not attempt to breach ...

3. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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   Best practices • Don't enable the "use less secure apps" feature. • Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a verification code. • Don't respond to unsolicited emails or requests to send money. • Pay attention to the types of data you're authorizing access to, especially in third-party apps.

4. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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   List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers. The good news is that scam callers will often show up ...

5. The $130 Million Cell-Phone Scam - AOL

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6. Phishing - Wikipedia

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   SMS phishing or smishing is a type of phishing attack that uses text messages from a cell phone or smartphone to deliver a bait message. The victim is usually asked to click a link, call a phone number, or contact an email address provided by the attacker.

7. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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   Can you hear me? is a question asked in an alleged telephone scam that started occurring in the United States and Canada in 2017. It is alternatively known as the Say "yes" scam. Reports of this scam and warnings to the public have continued into 2020 in the US. There have also been several reports of the same kind of incidents happening in Europe.

8. Protecting your AOL Account - AOL Help

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   You have to be especially careful because fraudsters, trying to get information out of you, create websites that resemble the sites of legitimate businesses. "Phishing" is a scam designed to steal your personal information under false pretenses, find out how to protect yourself against online scams. Some clues of fraud:

9. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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   The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...